Mothers' attitude towards orodental health of their 1-6 years old children referred to medical centers of Zahedan city, 2006

Healthy community is strictly dependent on having healthy children, whose orodental hygiene is a necessity for maintaining health. Orodental care must begin from childhood, because performing special care of milk teeth of children would guarantee optimal growth of permanent teeth. Family, as an agent fostering physical and psychosocial aspects of the child can help to population health in parallel sith health care systems through educational and health activities. This paper aim at investigating mothers' attitude of orodental health of their 1-6 years children referred to health treatment centers. This study was designed to determine the mothers' attitude of mothers' of orodental health of their 1-6 years old children. This was a cross-sectional study in which data was gathered using questionnaire and interview. Five hundreds mothers of 1-6 years old children, selected by random sampling method, took part in the study. According to findings, the percentage of mothers with positive, inert, and negative attitude were respectively 79.6%, 20.4%, and 0%. There was direct positive relationship between attitude and mothers' age and education, age of children and economic status.00]. It is of great importance that authorities plan systematic and strict educational programs using mass media, and any other facility suitable for the purpose to make mothers knowledgeable about the subject. It is suggested to study the causes of inappropriate practice among mother in future studies

Social health of 7-11 years old children living in foster care centers

Nowadays, one of main and critical subject is preparation of a healthy and fair environment for children who are biggest national sources in every society, because, factors that disturb children living environment can affect children's health. Some problems such as families' bad function, abuse, poverty, divorce and parental substance abuse are the reasons usually lead to place children in foster care centers. On the other hand, entry to these foster care centers and living in these centers face children with lot of social and health problems. In regard to this issue for assessing social health status of 7-11 years children living in foster care centre in Tehran, we performed a cross sectional study with 105 children [57 boy, 48 girl]. In this research, sampling was of census type and information about children social health was obtained through Vienland Adoptive Behavior Scale by guardians who recognized these children and their behavior. Results showed that 45.7% of participants in this research were considered as moderate regarding social health, and 19.1% were considered as poor. Chi-square test also showed that between social health and sex [p=0.053] was a statistically significant relationship, but there was no significant relationship between social health and age [p=0.462] and social health with duration of stay in these centers. While children in foster care centers are one of the high risk groups in societies related to their social health status, based on findings of current study and results of researches in other countries, full attention should be directed towards social health of children and conducting more studies is recommended to survey factors that affect their social health

Mothers' awareness, regarding orodental health of their children at age of 1-6 years old

Orodental health is one of the most important aspect of children's health. Care of mouth and teeth is important in children during childhood, because it guarantees the appropriate raising of permanent teeth. Therefore, mothers' awareness about orodental health is important, as a foundation for health promotion planning for children. The aim of this study, was to determine the knowledge of mothers about their childreans orodental health at age of 1-6 years old. This was a cross-sectional study in which, questionnaires and interviews were used as tools for data gathering. Five hundred mothers of children at age of 1-6 years old, were selected by random sampling method that took part in the study. About 8.6% of mothers had low level knowledge, 44% had moderate knowledge and 47.4% had good knowledge regarding orodental health in children [P=0.000]. The ANOVA test showed that significant correlation between the variables of knowledge and mothers' age as well as, mothers' education, children's age, economic situation of the families and residence area. As mothers have great responsibilities about children's orodental health, therefore increasing knowledge regarding this issue is important and planning educational programs for mothers would be necessary